The Way Of The Hare

"Sometimes, you just want a book about something someone loves. The Way of the Hare isn’t particularly interested in poetic turns of phrase; it’s interested in lagomorphs, and that’s enough. Marianne Taylor fondly follows her subjects from their introduction to Britain through to their occasionally-grim futures, gathering information about witch hunts and rabbit hearts as she goes. The history is absorbing, the science full of interesting trivia, and the author’s passion evident – for Taylor, treatment of the hare is a symptom of our greater relationship with the natural world. As goes the genus Lepus, so go we."